OK, I bought the game today, did a full install, but when i try to launch the game, the screen comes up in the middle of my desktop with the box art and then goes away, ie; the game WON'T FRIGGIN START!!!!!! PLEASE help me!!!!!!

Are you running any Virual Drive app?
if so delete it.
Did you make sure the cd is in its drive? try swapping cd 1 with cd 2.

If these things dont work i have no clue.

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just so it doesn't get asked later, here's my system specs:
WinXP
512megs of RAM
Athlon 1.2gHz T-Bird
Asus A7V Motherboard
ATI Radeon 8500 64meg DDR vid card

I tried both CD's, no luck :0(, but thnx!

[This message has been edited by nsyrax (edited January 23, 2002).]

1.do OTHER games run okay??
2.what other games work?
3.what other games DO NOT work?
4.what directx ver do u have - EXACTLY what ver.?
5.what vid drvrs do have - EXACTLY what ver.?
6.after the initial screen goes away - what happens? are u back to the desktop?
7.did u try to start mohaa in SAFE MODE?
8.did u get any ERRORS during install - ANY errors at all?

thats all the questions i can think of now - plz answer...

okay, i'm at work right now, but i'll tell you what i can, after the screen goes away, i am back on the desktop, no error messages, and it's not running in the backround. Both the single player and multiplayer demos for MOHAA worked fine. I'm running DirectX 8.1 and the latest drivers for my video card

[This message has been edited by nsyrax (edited January 23, 2002).]

I think I can help you...
1.) PLEASE COPY WHAT THE error SAYS
2.) DO YOU HAVE WIN XP?
A.If THERE IS A OPENGL ERROR YOU NEED TO FIND NEW VIDEO CARD DRIVERS FOR YOUR CARD... and install those...

Same thing happend to me and it helped me...

[This message has been edited by Gh0st (edited January 23, 2002).]

I am running XP, but i don't get an error message at all, just goes to the desktop like i never even tried to launch the game.

any other suggestions?

Thanks, but i figured it out, besides, i have a ATI Radeon 8500, not Nvidia. Thanks anyhoo!

what did u do to fix it?

I figured out the solution for the problem running the game (or demo) in XP with a
nivida chipset.
First:
Update to the latest Detonator drivers for your NVidia card for windows XP/2000.
( http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=windows2000)
Version 23.11

Second:
After the install of the videodriver search
for these 2 files:
opengl32.dll (670Kb, dated 7 sept 2001) and
opengl32.lib (325Kb, dated 16 july 1996).
The can be found in the windowssystem32
directory.

Third:
Copy these 2 files into the game dir
x:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAA
(x is your drive letter where the game is installed!)
overwriting the old files that were there.
(the old opengl32.dll is 717Kb)

Last step:
Remove the '3dfxgl.dll' from your game dir.
that should fix the problem. I believe the
engine tries to load the 3dfx drivers
first. I think when they did the RTCW code
they did not do a validity check to make
sure there was not another opengl driver
before erroring out.

After these steps MOHAA will work on XP too!!

Have fun people!!